EU Commission decides to refer Luxembourg to the Court of Justice for failing to transpose EU rules on seizing criminals’ profits

– the seriousness of the infringement,

– the duration of the infringement,

– special “n” factor (which varies between Member States and takes into account their Gross domestic product, GDP, in millions of euros and number of seats of the Member State concerned in the European Parliament).

The financial sanctions proposed by the Commission in this case consist of a daily penalty payment (to penalise the continuation of the infringement after the Court’s judgment).

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Confiscation & asset recovery

On the key decisions in the April and June 2021 infringements package, see full MEMO/21/2743

On the general infringements procedure, see MEMO/12/12

On the EU infringements procedure

Infringements database